Arrival of Bedidi (Govt. launch), Rajahwali (Shell yacht), Jolly Bachelor (Govt. launch) and Lorna Doone (Govt. launch) with Sir Anthony Abell (Governor) and Buck (Resident 4th Div) on board.

His Excellency inspects Sarawak Constabulary Guard under Inspector Sulaiman. Local boats at foot of cliff. 

View of Regatta from top of cliff (where are Fort Hose, Resthouse, my House and garden). View from launch including Malay village houses. 

Barney Young (Asst. Attorney-General) alone in hydroplane.

Fort Hose. On wall is written 'Welcome' in Kayan, Iban, Kenyah, Chinese and Malay (in Arabic script). 

Mulu Mountain (7798 ft.). 

Crowds and boats at foot of cliff with Fort on top and Penghulu Tama Bulan Lian, teacher David Lian, Inspector Sulaiman.

Guests' beds in my house. 

Self with group in my cliff top garden. Malay women. 

Kenyah, Malay and Iban women.

The cups. 

Kenyah/Kayan women. 

Datu Tuanku Bujang (from Sibu) in white shirt, brown trousers and Malay black songkok on head and self. 

Datu Zen Galau MBE QMC (white jacket, medals and order round neck) his family and myself. 

Sigan under umbrella.

Mrs Hales, hatless, taken on the Rajahwali. The Jolly Bachelor crowded. 

Redt. 4th Div. (Bunny Buck) blue shirt, white hair. 

Carter in white cloth cap (a New Zealander, did good anti-Japanese work in Borneo and now in Sarawak. Oilfields) and General Manager Hales. 

Shell flag. Marudi bazaar. 

Jolly Bachelor. 

Cliff with on top big tree in District Officer's garden. 

Fort Hose. 

Mrs. Carter in big red and white hat 

H.E. on launch (white shirt and specs). Mrs Hales and Bunny Buck. Prize giving - Tuanku Abdullah, Abdul Manan, Mrs Dickie in blue (wife of Dr Dickie) because presumably senior Govt. lady present.

About Ian Urquhart

Ian Urquhart was a decorated British soldier, posted to Sarawak, where he served from 1947 to 1965. A brilliant linguist with an abiding interest in learning about other people and their cultures, he was a natural fit to be a civil service officer.

In addition to his administrative duties, he studied the indigenous communities he encountered focusing on their varied languages. From 1951 to 1959, Ian published several articles published by the Sarawak Museum Journal.

It was during this period that he conducted many trips into the jungles of Sarawak, in particular the Kelabit highlands and the Ulu Baram. From 1957 his wife Bunty accompanied him and contributed to some of the filming. 

It was these trips that he documented on Silent Standard/Regular 8mm colour and b/w cinefilm leaving his family and the people of Sarawak with not only a detailed account of his life there, he annotated all 30 reels, 23 of which are available in this collection.